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Definition of Donnybrook
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Donnybrook
Literary usage of Donnybrook
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Metropolitan (1844)
"donnybrook FAIR. donnybrook Fair ! Where is the Irishman to be found whose ...
Speak of donnybrook Fair to an Irishman abroad, and you touch a tender chord ..."
2. Personal Sketches of His Own Times by Jonah Barrington (1871)
"donnybrook FAIR THE fair of donnybrook, near Dublin, has been long identified
with the name and character of the lower classes of Irish people ; and, ..."
3. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine by William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1838)
"Well, little hoping to satisfy your fastidious expectations, I went to donnybrook
last summer. But, first, I am in a Dublin street. ..."
4. The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells (1920)
"THE donnybrook JIG OH! 'twas Dermot O'Nolan M'Figg, That could properly handle
... So more luck to sweet donnybrook Fair. But Dermot, his mind on love bent, ..."
5. Bulletin by Geological Survey of Western Australia (1917)
"Six samples of sandstone representative of the various quarries at donnybrook.
and from different horizons in the same, were submitted by the Chief ..."
6. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1861)
"A STROLL OVER donnybrook FAIE-GREEN. THE household word, donnybrook, has been
for a long period loosely associated with Ireland, and more intimately with ..."
7. The Golden Treasury of Irish Songs and Lyrics by Charles Welsh (1907)
"CHARLES O'FLAHERTY (1794-1828) THE HUMORS OF donnybrook FAIR OH ! ... So more
luck to sweet donnybrook Fair. The souls they came crowding in fast, ..."
8. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"... in reference to " donnybrook," or, ш it is elsewhere spelled, "Donne-nach-brok";
which DR. ... donnybrook ..."
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